Religion: Divine Investigation

All impostors in religion such
as pretend to personate Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to
worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law
was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J.
"Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by
Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints
against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom."
Judge Hartshorne took...